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Morning Newscast 02-09-16

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Morning Newscast

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday it's giving final approval to the Libby Superfund asbestos cleanup program. Work to clean up the town started about 15 years ago.

An electric utility serving 26,000 homes and businesses in eastern Montana is scaling back a proposed 21 percent rate increase.

State officials are seeking public comment on a proposed gold mining project just north of the Yellowstone National Park border.

Governor Steve Bullock was in Great Falls yesterday to launch the job-training component of Montana’s Medicaid expansion.

A man who was shot by Kalispell police has been charged with felony assault on a peace officer.

A plea deal has been reached in the case of an Evergreen man charged with killing his girlfriend's toddler son.

Montana will let high school juniors take the ACT instead of Smarter Balanced exams to fulfill national testing mandates this year.

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